lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2022]   [Jan]   [25]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: linux-next: build failure after merge of the kspp tree
On Tue, 25 Jan 2022 19:18:53 -0800
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 08:16:34PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 09:35:38 +0900
> > Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > > I think Kees' idea seems better. If you and Beau are good, I will update
> > > the macros for __rel_loc. (This requires to change some user-space
> > > application which Beau is making too.)
> >
> > If Beau is OK with it, I'm OK with it too. I need to release a new version
> > of libtraceevent anyway, and I can make the update for that too.
> >
> > Who's adding the patch (if Beau says it's OK), you or Kees?
>
> I don't know anything about libtraceevent, so hopefully not me! :) The
> patches Masami and I already sent fix the warning, so I leave it you
> y'all to decide if you want to make the internals a bit simpler.
>


Thinking about this more. I may just take both your patches, and leave it
as an offset from the location of the descriptor. It's closer to the
meaning of "relative" than doing it as a fixed offset from data.

And then no other patches or user space needs to be changed.

Thanks,

-- Steve

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2022-01-26 04:26    [W:0.152 / U:0.192 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site